Lucy has long been considered a significant specimen of one of our earliest ancestors, in part because of the completeness of the skeleton ... decided a baboon bone was the closest fit to the ...

Before their deaths the baboons were sunlight-deprived and developed bone ailments from poor nutrition, researchers discovered. Examination of the skeletal remains revealed signs of rickets ...

A careful look at the ancient hominin’s skeleton suggests one bone may actually belong to a baboon. In November 1974, palaeoanthropologists Donald Johanson and Tom Gray made the discovery of a ...